Have writer's block? Hopefully this resource will help librarians identify publishing and presentation opportunities in library & information science, as well as other related fields. I will include calls for papers, presentations, participation, reviewers, and other relevant notices that I find on the web. If you find anything to be posted, please drop me a note. thanks -- Corey Seeman, University of Michigan(cseeman@umich.edu)

"Brick and Click" is a one-day symposium of practical relevance to directors, librarians and paraprofessionals supporting traditional and online resources/services for academic library users. The annual symposium has been hosted by Northwest Missouri State University since its inception in 2001.

Presenter Benefits:

Presenters receive a reduced registration fee ($100) to the symposium and an opportunity to publish a paper in the symposium proceedings.

CFP: Collections 2009: Collections in times of innovation and changeLe Palais des congrès de MontréalMontréal, Quebec

Wednesday, May 27, 20099:00 am – 4:00 pm

The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association seeks proposals for papers that deal with a “Collections in times of innovation and change” theme or other collections-related topics and should result in a presentation of about 30 minutes in length. Each presentation should feature one or two speakers. Papers with broad applications or with applications to more than one library sector or community of users will be given preference. Panel proposals will also be considered. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians.

Deadline for submission of proposals: February 23, 2009Send proposals, including a short abstract, to:

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

LISjobs.com's professional development newsletter, Info Career Trends, seeks writers for two upcoming issues:

May 2009: Being ProactiveHow do you deliberately move your career forward? How do you find leadership opportunities when you aren’t in a management position? How do you spearhead projects, launch initiatives, and ask for what you want? How do you negotiate a raise or promotion? All different ways of being proactive and taking charge of your own career.

July 2009: Keeping up in a down economyHow do you take advantage of professional development opportunities in an environment where your institution may not be able to fund your attendance? How do you ensure your relevance to your organization in an era of downsizing? How do you supplement your income with additional activities or part-time work? This issue addresses the various ways in which we can address or minimize the economy’s effects on us personally.

Check the contributor guidelines, then email your query to editor@lisjobs.com outlining what you intend to write about and why you’re a good person to do so. Looking forward to seeing your ideas!

Annual Conference offers a forum for an exciting and energizing exchange of ideas on research, practices, developments, and visions for libraries and the communities they serve. The 2009 conference theme, “Ready, Set, Go!” reflects MLA’s new strategic focus on the future and the energy, talent and enthusiasm that will result in improved library services for the citizens of Michigan. The Conference Program Subcommittee is seeking high quality programs that will help the Michigan library community think about the future of the field, the practices and plans that are helping us get there and the economic, social and technological realities of the environment in which we must thrive.

Monday, January 12, 2009

The editor of the Michigan SLA Bulletin is looking for members to submit short pieces on their libraries. Are you making use of the newest technologies to stay ahead of client expectations? How do you market your services to your organization? Do you work with a specialized collection that might be of interest to other members? If so, think about writing a short article! For more information, please contact Laura Berdish at berdish@umich.edu.

Business is everywhere. As a result, business information literacy is crucial to success in almost every aspect of daily life in academic, corporate or public library environments. In this call for posters, the Business and Finance Division of SLA is providing an opportunity for business librarians to share ideas on this important topic. We are looking for case studies or practical applications on a wide range of issues including:

• Standards and competencies for business information literacy• Pedagogic approaches to business information literacy education• Assessment of learning outcomes• Integrating business information literacy in the curriculum• Librarian / faculty collaboration• New technologies for teaching business information literacy• Business information literacy in multi-disciplinary contexts• Professional development for business information literacy• Promoting business information literacy in the corporate environment

Help your colleagues learn from your work, both successful and unsuccessful. Share the results of your efforts at the upcoming poster session at SLA in Washington, June 2009. This session is sponsored by the Business & Finance Division. Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Business & Finance Division website athttp://units.sla.org/division/dbf/conferences/2009conference_posters.html

The deadline for abstract submissions is March 1, 2009. Please submit your name, institution, fax, email address, poster title, and description (250 words or less) by email, fax, or surface mail to Karen MacDonald at the address given below. Any SLA Member is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration. In the event that a greater number of submissions are received than can be accommodated, members of the Business & Finance Division will be given preference. Not a member of the SLA Business & Finance Division? Click here to join: http://www.sla.org/

All applicants will be notified no later than April 1, 2009 as to whether or not their proposal has been accepted. If you have any questions about this session, contactKaren I. MacDonald, MBA, MLISAssistant Professor / Business Liaison LibrarianPO Box 3967University LibraryGeorgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303 USAPh. (404) 413-2856Fax: (404) 413-2851Email: kimacdonald@gsu.edu

We are accepting articles for the Taylor & Francis/Routledge peer-reviewed journal Resource Sharing & Information Networks and are particularly interested in shared virtual library services, digitization projects and other multi-library collaborative efforts including the following topics:

2009-01-12, The National Library of Korea, the host for DC-2009, to be held 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea, has opened the conference Web site. The Call for Papers for the conference is open until 24 April 2009. Submissions are being invited for full papers, project reports and posters.

Conference Title"Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data"Conference ThemeDC-2009 will focus on linked data and the enabling of the Semantic Web. Conferenceparticipants will explore the conceptual and practical issues in breaking the constraints of datasilos and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge. Metadata is a key to theseprocesses supporting publishing and interlinking structured data on the Semantic Web.The basic assumption behind the concept of linked data is that the value and usefulness of dataincreases the more it is interlinked with other data. There is a growing interest in the metadatacommunity in connecting existing and future data contained in silos within and acrossorganizations in a meaningful way that supports extraction and correlation of the data. Thelinking of data from disparate data silos presents technical and social challenges that will beexplored at DC-2009 through full papers, project reports, posters, special sessions andworkshops.Beyond the conference theme, papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a widerange of metadata topics, such as:- Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices- Metadata quality, normalization, and mapping- Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)- Application profiles- Metadata interoperability across domains, languages, and time- Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, institutional repositories)- Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education,government, and scientific fields)- Bibliographic standards (e.g., RDA, FRBR, subject headings) as Semantic Webvocabularies- Accessibility metadata- Metadata for scientific data- Metadata in e-Science and grid applications- Social tagging- Knowledge Organization Systems (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files,folksonomies, and thesauri) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS)- Ontology design and development- Integration of metadata and ontologies- Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)- Search engines and metadata- Semantic Web metadata and applications- Vocabulary registries and registry services

I am pleased to inform you that we are now accepting Call for Proposal applications for the 2009 National Streams of Language, Memory, and Lifeways Conference for Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums to be held in Portland, Oregon October 19-22, 2009. Please visit the www.tribalconference.org website to view the application. There are two ways to submit a proposal. You may either submit an online application through the conference website or download the application and mail a hard copy to:

To briefly update you the 2009 Streams Conference Planning Committee and I are working hard to make this a meaningful and affordable conference for everyone to attend. In the very near future we will have a Scholarship Application available with deadlines posted for those who could not afford to attend otherwise. In addition, we are hopeful to be able to offer continuing education credits which will be included in the registration process. As soon as this information is ready for distribution I will be in contact with you again. I look forward to meeting you in Portland!

This conference is funded by a Laura Bush Librarians for the 21st Century Grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, sponsored by the Western Council of State Libraries, and hosted by the Oregon State Library & Tamástslikt Cultural Institute of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

CFP: 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate studentsNanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, May 1-3, 2009

Call for Papers:

Vancouver Island University is pleased to host the 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, May 1-3, 2009. The keynote speakers will be noted scholars Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer. For conference information, see www.viu.ca/childandbook . The registration page will be posted shortly after the close of the call-for-paper deadline, as will a revised conference schedule.

We particularly invite proposals for papers exploring the conference theme, although all scholarly papers on topics related to children's literature will be given careful consideration.

The theme of this year's conference is This Land is Our Land, and we welcome proposals on the following topics:

Proposals for 20-minute presentations should be 250 words and should indicate texts to be discussed and the theoretical/critical framework underpinning your argument. Also include a separate brief biography for use by panel chairs when introducing presenters.

The Communication Review seeks a synthesis of concerns traditional to the fields of communication and media studies. The journal seeks works that contribute to new knowledge across conventional disciplinary boundaries: -Communication and Culture, probing the questions of producing meaning and interpretation by way of analyzing culture through the visual and dramatic arts, literature, sociology, anthropology, and in the interdisciplinary tradition of cultural studies.

-Communication as a Social Force, focusing on the historical development and contemporary transformation of media and communication,telecommunications, and information systems, emphasizing their political-economic, technological, and institutional dynamics.

-Communication and Mind, examining the individual socially constituted through language and other media in their cultural, social, and economic contexts.

The editors view these as different theoretical perspectives on the study of communication processes. They particularly encourage historical work, feminist work, and visual work, and invite submissions from those employing critical theoretical and empirical approaches to a range of topics under the general rubric of communication and media studies research.

The Communication Review also functions as a review of current work in the field. Towards this end, the editors are always open to proposals for special issues that interrogate and examine current controversies in the field. We also welcome non-traditionally constructed articles which critically examine and review current sub-fields of and controversies within communication and media studies; we offer an expedited review process for timely statements. In addition, we welcome book reviews and extended review essays.

Monday, January 05, 2009

Calling ALA Midwinter attendees with an interest in metadata and digital library development! We are searching for bloggers to report on selected sessions on the Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group's Blog. Planning to attend a session or already reporting on a session? Think about blogging it here too! If you would like to blog any of the sessions, please contact Kristin Martin at kmarti@uic.edu with your name, e-mail address, and preferred session. A list of recommended sessions is available at:

I am very pleased to announce the availability of the Poster Session Proposal Form for the Innovative Users Group (IUG) 2009 Conference to be held in Anaheim, California from Sunday, May 17 to Wednesday, May 20, 2009.

The deadline for submitting Poster Session proposals is Friday, February 13, 2009.

***********************NEW THIS YEAR

Conference Management System-----------------------------------We are in the process of migrating all the conference forms and materials from previous and current conferences to a Conference Management System. The conference system is still under construction but is getting very close to completion.

MyIUG----------To submit a Poster Session proposal, you will need to create your own IUG login. Go to http://innovativeusers.org/login/ to read more about MyIUG and create your account.

A poster session is a great opportunity to share an idea in progress or show other IUG members how your library did something well. We are interested in poster sessions on a variety of topics. If you need some ideas for what might be of interest to colleagues from other Innovative libraries, take a look at the Suggested Topics that have been compiled over the past few years and from the responses to the IUG 2008 meeting in Washington, D.C. You have the experience and ideas to share!! If you have an idea of your own and don't see it listed, please submit a proposal anyway.

Again, deadline for submitting Poster Session proposals is Friday, February 13, 2009. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the poster session proposal process.

The Program Committee and I look forward to getting all of your great proposals!

The OVGTSL 2009 Conference Planning Committee invites you to submit a 50 minute presentation. Proposals will include presenter contact information, paper title, 200-300 word abstract, and indication of technology needs. Papers should relate to open source or open access projects or principles in technical service library work.

Example topics include but are not limited to:Implementing an open source ILS such as EvergreenUse of open source content management systems such as DrupalCatalogers' participation in institutional repository developmentBuilding open access journals at your libraryCataloging open access resourcesOpen source software as your library's primary public software applications

Submission deadline is March 1, 2009.

Final Decisions regarding paper selection will be sent to submitters no later than March 13, 2009.

If you have any questions regarding this process please contact Kristi Palmer, klpalmer@iupui.edu 317.274.8230